In a pleasant spring morning all men's sins are forgiven.

Why should not a poet's cat be winged as well as his horse?

No way of thinking or doing, however ancient, can be trusted without proof.

This whole earth which we inhabit is but a point in space. How far apart, think you, dwell the most distant inhabitants of yonder star, the breadth of whose disk cannot be appreciated by our instruments?

I have seen how the foundations of the world are laid, and I have not the least doubt that it will stand a good while.

In love and friendship the imagination is as much exercised as the heart; and if either is outraged the other will be estranged. It is commonly the imagination which is wounded first, rather than the heart,--it is so much the more sensitive.

A man has not seen a thing who has not felt it.